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repeating/editable regions or CSS?

i'm going to have multiple product pages, and i want the same layout on each page, whereby the product headings appear in bold on the left. next to each heading is the product specific content. then in the upper right i want an image of the product with a View Larger link.

is the best way to go about construction this sort of layout with a Table and making use of the repeating editable region functionality in dreamweaver, or should i be using CSS?

if CSS, what's the overal gist of how i should set it up? i'm not really sure how i would get the headings in the left column to align right, then have the input/content right next to it, align left where they are and have everything line up.

this is one for css. I don't use dreamweaver so I can't comment on that part of your question.

basically, it sounds like you want a three column table and for the cells in the left col, to be align:right with the cells in the middle column, align:left and the cells in the right column to be align:center;

bazz

"The day you stop learning is the day you become obsolete"! - my late Dad.

well yeah, that's what i want. but how do i set it up with css? the problem is there's going to be a few cells/divs in the middle, which contain product descriptions, that are bigger for some products and smaller for others.

so i dont know how i could possibly line up 3 divs next to eachother and have the headings in the very left div stay horizontally aligned with their descriptions in the next div.

the asterisk makes that css instruction apply to all browsers (that I know of) and helps with x-browser consistency/compatibility.

with regard to tabular data; I was saying that what you initially described sounded like a table was correct. You seemed to want the data in each column to line up with the columns either side, which you weren't sure how to achieve with a series of divs. However, now you have mentioned including a list, within the table. That may be OK (coz I don't know the content) but, if it needs to align with data to its left (or right), it may not. I didn't mean that you should stop using a table. I just meant that you should ensure that your data is still correctly placed in a table, otherwise, reverting to a div idea might be semantically better.

It's your site: it's your call.

bazz

"The day you stop learning is the day you become obsolete"! - my late Dad.